This is me pretending to be working at my desk. Hehe. Well no, I wasn’t pretending to be working. And no, that isn’t my desk. It used to be, though. I miss that desk.
Actually, I just moved to the desk right beside it. Haha! But the feel isn’t the same. There’s really something great about having a desk in the corner. It’s sort of like having a room but not, plus you can stick things on the wall beside you. I had 2 corkboards, a white board, a little wooden, um...thing where I could hang my bag, my jacket, my cap, and sometimes my towel when I had to spend the night in the office. I even had an NBA mini-basketball ring! I still have it on my new desk, but I’m not in the corner anymore, so shooting some hoops with crumpled paper while sitting down might annoy my new seatmate. Oh! And I had a computer! Argh! The only thing that desk didn’t have was a telephone. And now I have a new desk and I STILL don’t have a telephone! Well, not every desk has a telephone anyway, so that was ok. But it was so cool to have my own computer. Darn.
So why did I have to give up my favorite desk ever? Because Probe is coming up with a new show. Pretty cool, eh? Right now, the office area is divided into 3 sections: Admin, The Probe Team and GamePlan. The Probe Foundation is in a separate area of the house, and Cheche Lazaro Presents has only one desk in our section since the producers come from all the other shows anyway; but since we’re working on a new show, we had to give up at least one table with a computer. So they picked mine. Huhu.
Things aren’t really that bad, though. The new show isn’t even airing yet, so I still get to squat in the corner to use the computer. Heehee. Corner desk withdrawal ba.
*** I’ll be leaving for Batangas in a few hours for the First Iron Man Triathlon in the Philippines. Way cool! The race is this Saturday and everybody’s going to be there and I’m so excited that I can’t sleep! Actually, I’m trying not to sleep because God knows I won’t be able to make the 530am call time if I do. Ayayay. Stay up, STAY UP!
*** I found mango tartlets in the ref. Mmmm, yummy.
Ok, taggers! Sorry, but the my ventboard's temporarily down until I figure out how to do what Meg did to hers. Hehe. Meg, my html guru. Naks! Anyway, go over to her site muna and fill up her new note pad. :)
It’s a pretty cool concept really. LAN Party! What happens is a couple of friends bring their CPUs to one house, connect the computers into a network and play games all night long. So instead of having to pay for your hours in a network gaming hub, just bring everything to a friend’s house and poof! You have a LAN party! Cool, no?
I went to an old friend’s birthday party last week and it was the usual fun with alcohol and lots of pulutan. There were chips and siomai and surprisingly, we had balut! Hehe. I also tried a drink called a strawberry mudslide and it was really yummy. Anyway, the official party was in the garden, but in the terrace there were 3 computers that were connected in a network. 2 of our other friends were playing D&D. I was watching them for a while and I wanted to try playing with them, but the third computer had no speakers. Sad. So instead, they showed me the video downloads from Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
The videos were hilarious! I saw the Starwars Nerds which was shot outside a theater during the premiere of Star Wars: Episode 2. Triumph was making fun of everybody in costume, that they were geeks who would never get laid or something like that. Then there was this crazy guy in a really nice Gandalf costume. Uh, excuse me! Wrong movie! Hehe. I also liked the other video during Bon Jovi’s Concert. Hahaha! Ramon told me about it before, but it was so funny to watch. Triumph was humping Heather Locklear’s arm! Haha!
So there. It wasn’t officially a LAN party, but at least I got a taste what it was like. I hope to attend a real one some time, but I don’t think I’d want to go through the hassle of bringing my own CPU. All that disconnecting and connecting and desconnecting again? Ayuh.
I needed to kill some time last week, so I decided to go see Hibla. Everyone was talking about it anyway, so I was curious.
Sad to say, the story was ok and the dialogue was ok, but the delivery was horrible. I didn’t feel the pain of Rica Peralejo’s character, Maui Taylor had only one way of saying most of her lines, and I didn’t like Ricky Davao in this movie. The cinematography was beautiful, though. I liked the lighting and the framing, and the establishing shots of the mountains were pretty (albeit too many). I think that the actresses’ fake breasts destroyed a lot of shots, though. How can you make a shot sexy when the breasts that you’re shooting aren’t even sexy, right?
And what was with their clothes? I thought that Rica was supposed to be conservative, but then her peasant blouses kept on becoming off-shoulder. Weird.
All in all, I think that the film was sayang.
*** Kailangan Kita with Aga Muhlach and Claudine Barreto was fun to watch. Really, it was! I liked all the cooking scenes. Wow, so much food! And Aga’s English was a little funny. Our favorite line was “It’s your time to shine and be happy.” Heehee.
There were some parts in the story that tried to fit in but were never really dealt with in the end. Elena (Barreto) has a boyfriend named Abel (Jericho Rosales) who’s part of the NPA. Throughout the movie, little bits of hatred for the NPA pop up from Elena’s dad, her brothers and Carlos (Muhlach). Jericho’s cameo was very short (Mich: That’s it? That’s all I get to see of Jericho?!). As Abel, he injures his leg, gets help from Elena, gets caught and tries to run away with his injury. Elena’s brothers chase him with guns and you hear a gunshot. Oh no! Cry, cry (because I’m a softee). Cut to Elena’s dad scolding her for helping the NPA, therefore establishing why Elena is the most oppressed member in their family. As in Carlos thought that she was a helper.
Then that’s that. Hardly anything else about Abel except that Elena wanted to run away with him long ago. Then she falls in love with Carlos (Aga) who’s about to marry her older sister, played by Rissa Samson. Now that’s kind of screwed up. What about Abel? He just got died! Then they make love...in the barn! With the door open! Ayayay. And again, what was with the clothes? Claudine was dressed like Peralejo in Hibla! Why? Well, at least she had very nice makeup. Hehe.
Rissa had a very nice dress by Inno Sotto, but she only came out in the ending. I wish that they showed more of her because she was very pretty.
*** I had no idea that the VIVA Cinema Channel was under STAR TV. Anyway, we ended up watching Hiram na Mukha. Naks! I wasn’t really paying that much attention, but it did look like a pretty tragic story. I think Medved’s character’s name was Clarissa, and the opening was this carnival where Clarissa and her mother were in a display called Ang Mag-Inang Unggoy. Yikes! She and her mother were so abused for being ugly that even their neighbors in the barangay would create trouble in front of their house.
One night, people started throwing rocks at their house. Clarissa and her mother tried to run away with their Lola (Caridad Sanchez), but their neighbors cornered them. Then Mendez (Cesar Montano) comes to the rescue and beats up some of the guys, and the fighting finally stops when Cherrie Pie Picache’s character arrives at the scene. She’s like the good-looking big boss of the barangay I think, and she’s in love with Mendez. But Mendez falls in love with Clarissa, and so the love triangle war begins.
Christopher de Leon plays this famous mad doctor, a plastic surgeon who dreams of making the most beautiful face in the world or something. So he meets Clarissa one night and decides to make her his project and voila! Clarissa becomes beautiful. But then she also becomes very bitchy and uses her beauty to get back at Picache. Her mother dies of TB, though, so she and her Lola move into this nice house provided by her doctor, and it so happens that Mendez is one the doctor’s new houseboys. Hala! Mendez and Clarissa fall in love again, but the doctor falls in love with her as well, even if he’s already married, and he keeps saying that he owns her face. And so begins another war for love.
The ending is really sad. Mendez and the doctor have fight near the edge of a cliff and when Mendez goes down, the doctor gets his gun and Clarissa goes between them. She asks the doctor to just give her old face back and to leave her and Mendez alone. The doctor lowers his gun and sadly tells her that he created her and that he loved her with everything he had. Then he shoots himself in the head and Clarissa gives this amazingly tragic cry. The doctor’s wife comes running into the scene, cradles her dead husband in her arms and just cries very quietly.
Whooh! Medyo magulo na heavy yun a.
*** Now we’re watching Megamol starring Sharon Cuneta and Andrew E. Hahaha! It’s so funny!
Don’t you just miss Tagalog movies that had stupid nyeh fun? And there’s this one funny scene where they’re taking a break and eating in Jollibee while being chased by some daguls. I guess this movie was way before Cuneta started doing ads for McDo. Plus, she has fight scenes! Haha! I never thought I’d enjoy Cuneta in a fight scene. She’s so funny!
An article in the Inquirer today said that people aren't sure if it'll be safe to go the next NU Rock Awards. That's kind of sad. I really hope that things will be better next year.
*** Our big baby Max (aka Maximus, Spaniard, Boromir, and Stupid Dog) just came back from the vet and he's overwieght! 86 pounds! Ayayay!
*** We have 2 or 3 Movie Magic channels and one of them is showing the making of Harry Potter 2. Yippee!
*** I'm finally jogging today. I swear, I'm really jogging today! After 4 months of zero exercise. Woohoo! The goal: 5k in under 40 minutes. Lord, sana di ako mahingal sa mga nayosi ko ngayon! How many have I had...1, 2, ok. 3. I can have one more and just stop for the day. Hehe.
